Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

The country has sent thousands of lion skeletons to Asia—legally. Experts say this has encouraged an illegal trade, potentially endangering South Africa’s remaining wild lions.

Human-hippo conflicts are exploding in this pristine patch of Kenya. Floods and the economic fallout from COVID-19 are pitting hungry fishermen against hungry hippos—with deadly results.

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

Animal and human tracks show the lush landscape that may have greeted Homo sapiens as they ventured into new lands more than 100,000 years ago.

The International Day of the Tropics, observed on June 29 annually, focuses on the significance of the tropics as hubs of the ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

If you think eating insects is gross, you may be in the cultural minority. Throughout history, people have relished insects as food. Today, many cultures still do. Ten thousand years ago hunters ...

For the first time, scientists sequenced the genomes of 20 individual lions, including extinct cave lions, revealing insights into their family tree.

It’s part of the 10th- or 11th-century A.D. Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a collection of parchments from St. Catherine’s monastery in Egypt with monastic writings in Syriac, an ancient language ...